Fire-place



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FIRE PLACE} No. 361,657. Patented Apr 19, 1887.-

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' THEODORE C. VESEY AND WILLIAM G. WHITE, OF'WEST POINT, MISSISSIPPI;SAID VESEY ASSIGNOR OF ONE-THIRD .I-IIS RIGHT TO SIDNEY B. \VHITE,

OF SAME PLACE.

FIRE-PLACE.

SPECIFICATION forming: part of Letters Patent No. 361,657, dated April19, 1887. Application filed May 17, 1886. Serial No. 202,369. I (Nomodel) I v To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that we, THEODORE O. V-EsEY and WILLIAM 0. WHITE, bothresidents of lVest Point, in the county of Clay and State ofMississippi, have invented certain new and useful Improvements inFire-Places; and we do hereby declare that the following is a full,

clear, and exact description of the invention,

which will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains tomake and use the same, refe'reucebeing had to the accompanying drawings,which form a part of this specification, and in which Figurel is a-frontview of our improved fireplace. Fig. 2 is a. vertical sectional view ofthe same, and Fig. 3 is a rear view of the grate and fire-back removedfrom the wall of the chimney.

Similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts in all thefigures.

Our invention has relation to that class of fire-places in which adamper slides at the top of the outwardly-inclined fire-back; and itconsists in the improved construction and combination of parts of such afire-place having the back and sides of the basket-grate open, similar.to its front, causing even draft at all sides thereof, as hereinaftermore fully described and claimed.

In the accompanying drawings, the letterA indicates the wall of thechimney, to which the jambs B B and lintel G are secured, and

- the upper portions of the said jambs and the lintel are provided withoutwardly-projecting flanges D D and E, forming a capat the upperportion of the opening for the grate.

An outwardly inclined fire-back, F, is secured with its side edges toside pieces, H H, dctachably secured to the front edges of the 40jambs,and extends outwardly to within a sufficient distance from thelintel to leave asmoke-' passage between its upper edge and thelintel.The forward face of this fire-back is smooth, while its rear face isprovided with re-enforcing ribs G.

The side pieces, H H, which are secured to the side edges of thefire-back and to the j ambs, close the grate at the sides, and the lowerends of these side pieces are provided with slots I, causing the saidlower portions to form open portions of the fire-basket.

An inclined grate-back, J, is joined at its upper edge to the lower edgeof the fire-back,

and has its side edges rcmovably secured to the rear edges of the openportions of the side pieces, the lower forwardly-proj ecting portion ofthe grate-back being supported by legs K.

L is the basket,which is removably attached to the jambs, and thisforward .portion of the basket, together with the open back and the openportions of the side pieces, will form a basket open at all sides, sothat the draft may pass upward through the fuelin the basket from allsides, causing an even combustion of the fuel.

A damper, M, slides upon the horizontal plate N, which is secured to theupper edge of the fire-back and to the wall of the chimney, sliding,preferably, with its inner portion in a slot, 0, in the said wall, andthe forward edge of this damper-plate is bent upward to form a flange,P.

A narrow plate, Q, is hinged with its lower edge to the damper-plateinside of the flange, and may be tilted at any angle, the upper edge ofthe hinged plate reaching nearly to the outer edge of the flange uponthe lintel when the plate is tilted upward.

It will be seen that, in connection with the outwardly-inclinedfire-back and projecting lintel, the damper-plate, when drawn out, willstop the draft more or less, and when the damper-plate is drawn out thehinged plate may be raised more or less, still cutting off more of thedraft, the damper-plate and the hinged plate cutting off the draftalmost entirely when drawn entirely out and tilted up in a verticalplane, a narrow space only re maining, through which gases arising fromthe fuel in the basket may be carried off and just sufficient draft maypass to keep the fuel glowing.

This grate being open at all sides, the combustion will be freer andmore perfect than in a grate surrounded at its rear or rear and sideswith closed walls, so that fuel which requires considerable draft may beburned in this grate which could not be burned in grates having one ormore sides closed,and when fuel having free combustion is burned in thegrate the damper may be drawn sufficiently far out to prevent the fuelfrom burning too fast.

The re-enforcing ribs of the fire-back will prevent the said back fromWarping, and the fire-back being inclined, it will throw out the heatfrom the grate into the room.

Having thus described our invention, we claim and desire to secure byLetters Patent of the United States 1. In a fire-place having anoutwardly-inclined fire-back and an overhanging lintel, a

damper-plate sliding at the upper edge of the said fire-back, and aplate hinged to the outer edge of said damper, as and for the purposeshown and set forth. 7

2. In a fire-place having an outwardly-inclined fire-back and anoverhanging lintel,'the

- combinationof a damper-plate sliding outward upon the upper edge ofthe said fire-back, and having its outer edge bentupward to form aflange, with a plate hinged at its lower edge inside of the flange ofthe damper-plate, and extending when tilted upward nearly to-saidlintel, as and for the'purpose shown and set fOIth;

3. In a fire-place, the combination ofjambs and a lintel formed withacap at the upper portion, an inclined fire-back, side pieces secured tothe side edges of the fire-back and having open lower portions, aninclined grate back joined with the lower edge of the fireback andconnected to the lower portions of the side pieces, and a grate-basketsecured to the side pieces, as and for the purpose shown and set forth.I

In testimony that we claim the foregoing as our own we have hereuntoaffixed our signatures in presence of two witnesses.

WVitnesses:

E. O. SPALDING, J. W. BRADY.

